Course Details

Within an indigenous pedagogical format, this interactive class is a space to do lovework.  We ponder and attempt to perceive how love is incorporated into our daily lives as students, scholars, workers, families, and active members of both human people communities and more-than-human communities.  We critically engage with notions of love, where our understandings of love came from, and how we can proceed with a love consciousness and a love ethic.

We vision possible logic trajectories and frames of understandings in which love, or lack thereof, are included – both individually and societally. We consider musical, biological, philosophical, psychological, religious, political, cultural, artistic, linguistic, and social perspectives on love.  We search for love knowledges and we seek stories about love in our own lives. We look at how love has been portrayed in history and how love can be put into action for creating our futures that include values of equity and positivity.

This course is intended to be an intervention into contemporary practices to help us understand our connections and relationships.  It is an encouragement to act in ways that better respect ourselves, others, and our world.